Short-Term Fix Postpones Dealing With a Trust Fund Running Out of Money

WASHINGTON—The House on Tuesday passed a $10.8 billion measure to pay the federal government's share of road and bridge repairs for the next 10 months, a step that would delay until next year the tougher question of how to shore up the trust fund as spending outpaces revenues.

The House voted 367-55 to pass the measure as time was running short to replenish the Highway Trust Fund, which covers about a quarter of the nation's spending on highway and mass-transit programs and will be insolvent next month unless Congress...